  Stakeholder Seminar - March 21-22, 2012 - Barcelona Discussing Socio-Technical Challenges of Long-term Radioactive Waste Management Location : Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Campus de la Comunicació – Poblenou - C/ Roc Boronat, 138 Wednesday 21/3
10:30 – 11:00 Registration and coffee 11:00 – 11:30 Opening of the
seminar and introduction to the project. Click here for further information [Anne Bergmans - UA]
Session 1 Socio-technical challenges to implementing geological disposal
11:30 – 12:15 Presentation of results from country studies and comparative synthesis - Click here to see draft country reports. [Peter Simmons & Catharina Landström - UEA] 12:15 – 13:15 Panel reflection (including Q&A) on socio-technical challenges from the point of view of … - a local community group [Marie Berggren – Östhammar] - an implementer [Věra Šumberová - RAWRA] - a regulator [David Brazier – UK Environment Agency] - a national NGO [Tobias Riedl - Greenpeace Germany] 13:15 – 14:15 LUNCH 14:15 – 14:45 Socio-technical challenges facing geological disposal in the USA [Daniel Metlay – U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board] 14:45 – 15:00 Questions (Q&A) from the floor and introduction to break out groups 15:00 – 16:00 Break out discussion groups 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee 16:30 – 17:00 Plenary feedback from group discussions
Session 2 Knowledge networks on RWM and socio-technical issues 17:00 – 17:15 Knowledge networks in RWM [Meri Martell - MERIENCE & Anne Bergmans - UA] 17:15 – 17:30 The European Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform (IGD-TP) [Maarten Van Geet - Ondraf / NIras, Belgium] 17:30 – 17:45 Some reflections on the IGD-TP and how it addresses different stakeholder groups [Meri Martell - MERIENCE] 17:45 – 18:00 Questions from the floor and intro to break out groups (day 2) 21:00 DINNER
Thursday 22/3
Session 2 Knowledge networks on RWM and socio-technical issues - continued 09:00 –09:20 An NGO’s view on how various knowledge networks on RWM deal with socio-technical issues [Zsuzsanna Koritar - Energiaklub, Hungary] 09:20 –10:00 Break out discussion groups on 10:00 –10:15 Comfort break 10:15 –10:50 The IPPA project and its relation to InSOTEC [Kjell Andersson, Karita Research, Sweden - IPPA coordinator]
Session 3 How the social and technical are combined in radioactive waste management
11:00 - 11:30 'Socio-technical combinations': a useful concept to respond to the key challenges of geological disposal? [Yannick Barthe & Morgan Meyer - CNRS / Göran Sundqvist - UiO] 11:30 - 11:45 Questions from the floor and introduction to break out groups 11:45 – 12:15 Break out discussion groups on the different themes 12:15 – 12:30 Comfort break 12:30 – 13:15 Plenary feedback from group discussions 13:15 – 13:30 Politics below the surface- Concluding reflections [Pieter Leroy - Radboud University Nijmegen] 13:30 – 13:45 Closure of the seminar 13:45 LUNCH |